[Zope3-dev] zope.testbrowser packaging

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Mon Sep 17 09:47:26 EDT 2007


extras are a terrible feature.  They aren't fully supported by  
setuptools and they make it more complicated.  Did you write tests  
for every permutation of your extras?

Jim

On Sep 15, 2007, at 9:44 PM, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Saturday 15 September 2007 08:48, Benji York wrote:
>> 1) introduce a "zope" extra that everyone will have to use (basically
>> just rename "test" to "zope";
>
> I prefer this solution. I have done this before for z3c.rml, where  
> I put the
> page template support into a "pagetemplate" extra declaration. I  
> liked this
> solution a lot. I would have never considered developing another  
> package for
> a fairly trivial extension of a few lines. I think eggs have the  
> potential
> for package proliferation and senseless overhead.
>
> Regards,
> Stephan
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